Invenetec expects its subsidiary Invenetc Appliances to ship 68-70 million hand-held mobile devices in 2017, growing 17.2-20.7% on year, the parent company said at a November 14 investors conference.

In addition, Inventec expects its server shipments in 2017 to increase significantly. Inventec produces servers for ODM clients including HP, Dell and Lenovo as well as direct sale to datacenters mainly in China.

Of third-quarter 2016 consolidated revenues of NT$111.654 billion (US$3.54 billion), 47.3% came from notebooks, AIO (all-in-one) PCs and tablets, 35.0% from servers, 15.4% from hand-held mobile devices and 2.3% from PV products.

Inventec suffered foreign exchange losses of NT$821 million in the third quarter and NT$1.780 billion in January-September.